MODESTY BLAISE Part 3

When Last We Saw Modesty and Willie...

...after Sir Gerald Tarrant provides Modesty with Willie Garvin's location (without quid pro quo), she rescues her former partner before he can be executed.

Respecting Sir Gerald, she agrees to help him by guarding a shipment of diamonds worth £10 Million to be used as payment for a from a sheik she knows.
But the ruthless criminal Gabriel is interested in 'acquiring' that shipment...and Modesty will need Willie's help...

To Be Continued Monday at...

Crime & Punishment!

Adapted by Peter O'Donnell from his 1965 novelization of his screenplay for the 1960s movie Modesty Blaise (of which less than 5% was actually used in the film), which, in turn, was based on the 1963 introductory plotline of the Modesty Blaise comic strip illustrated by Jim Holdaway.

Illustrated by Dick Giordano over layouts by Dan Spiegle.

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MODESTY BLAISE Part 1

If You Saw That Name on the Post and Expected This...

...you're reading the wrong blog, bunkie!

That movie had as much to do with Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise as the 1967 Casino Royale movie had to do with Ian Fleming's novel!

This is what O'Donnell intended...

To Be Continued Tomorrow at...

Crime & Punishment!

Adapted by Peter O'Donnell from his 1965 novelization of his screenplay for the 1960s movie Modesty Blaise (of which less than 5% was actually used in the film), which, in turn, was based on the 1963 introductory plotline of the Modesty Blaise comic strip illustrated by Jim Holdaway.

Illustrated by Dick Giordano over layouts by Dan Spiegle.

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DAREDEVIL COMICS "Pat Patriot: America's Joan of Arc"

Here's the Introduction to One of the More Unique Patriotic Golden Age Heroines...

Read the story and see if you can guess what makes her different from the other Golden Age heroines!

Brave, patriotic, can handle herself in a fight!

"What's so different about her?"

Her name!

"Patricia Patrios", the name chosen by writers Charles Biro & Bob Wood to conveniently "lead" into the Pat Patriot nom-du-guerre, was not the typical WASPy name most comic characters used!

It's never mentioned in the stories, but she appears to be a 1st or 2nd generation American of Greek or Greek/insert ethnicity ancestry.

The art on this tale from Lev Gleason's DareDevil Comics #2 (1941) is confusing in that it has elements of both Frank Borth and Reed Crandall's styles.so it's impossible to say who did what!
Pat Patriot kicked Nazi and neo-Nazi asses from #2 to #11, after which almost all the features besides DareDevil himself were replaced!

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Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics

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BLACK ANGEL / BLACK SQUAW "ScarFace" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...African-American/Native American aviatrix Bessie Coleman, flying an unarmed seaplane carrying bootlegger Al Capone and his entourage, is attacked by another aircraft with a machine-gunner!

Despite being outgunned, Bessie manages to shear off the attacking aircraft's tail section, causing it to crash, and eliminating the threat!
But the gunfire damage to her seaplane's pontoons causes it to sink after she, Capone and his assistants evacuate the craft by boat after landing.
The gangster, impresed by her prowess, agrees to buy a new plane, and send her home for a brief vacation.
However, Bessie didn't know the dreaded Ku Klux Klan, anxious to find her black plane that downed one of their own craft, had found it, but the tween-age kids she left to watch the barn/hanger had killed the two racists!
She's now attempting to repair the damage the Klansmen did to her aircraft!
And the Klan is wondering what happened to their missing men...

And so Black Angel: ScarFace, ends on a cliffhanger with Bessie, "armed" with an empty pistol, being brought to the KKK's state headquarters!

Sadly, only the first two volumes were translated into English and offered only as e-books!

The remaining volumes which completed the series...

Volume 3: Le Crotoy

and

Volume 4: Secret Six

have never been translated and exist only in non-English print editions

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There's no English-Language hardcover/trade paperback edition...as of now!

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Black Squaw #2 ScarFace

HardCover Graphic Novel

(in French)

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